Posted on 06/27/2020 4:59:03 AM PDT by tlozo
“I watch the Crime Channel a lot (yah,I know!) and once saw a story about a guy who drove something like 1,000 miles to,and from,the spot where he killed someone.In order to “establish an alibi””
Let me guess, he was caught due to his “Easy Pass”, or a license plate camera, or his phone.
” Roads in the US, to include freeways, are not designed for those speeds. “
100 on the interstate in my 2016 Mustang GT was very comfortable. I am not arguing that he did it, only that it is possible.
I worked for a rent car company a long time ago.
The renters regularly beat the hell out these cars.
Still, there is often interest in them at auction, which is a tribute to their mechanical capabilities, at least when they are relatively young.
Do you know what the average mileage/age of the cars was when they replaced them and cycled the old ones to auction?
“Roads in the US, to include freeways, are not designed for those speeds. There are on ramps, towns, curves, mountains, that extreme speeds could not be maintained.”
Interstates were designed for the 1955 Ford sedan, not for a performance Mustang GT.
No. This was a summer job in high school. My job was to sit in gas lines all day.
I used to have a fantasy of going to Germany,renting a BMW/Mercedes/Audi,and doing 120MPH on the Autobahn.But I don’t any more.
“I used to have a fantasy of going to Germany,renting a BMW/Mercedes/Audi,and doing 120MPH on the Autobahn.But I don’t any more.”
Cruising along I-5 at almost 100 saw a black speck coming up from behind. Dude on a motorcycle passed me in no time. Never had the front wheel to the pavement.
Where would he be in ANY zone? How would I know what route he took? All I know is, he bleep sure didn’t keep the pedal to the metal from coast to coast. That’s why there’s no video. It didn’t happen. I have driven to the left coast several times; using I-80 & I-90 and whatever roads connected. I was NOT attempting any speed record. But I know what other traffic can do. Therefore, I’m sure the numbers are ficticious.
Well we know he isn’t a smoker or a stoner.
How does one manage to average over 100 mph on our highways without getting pulled over by the state police?
“I have driven to the left coast several times; using I-80 & I-90 and whatever roads connected.”
How many 25 mph zones did you go through?
Secondary I guess. Primary is actually with my regular insuror I think.
Scary to think of this guy on the road driving 25+ hours with few if any breaks, a car full of makeshift gasoline tanks and obviously driving 100+ mph. If he even dozed off for a second it would be disaster. I also assume he wore some type of adult under garment as he wouldn’t likely be stopping to pee.
“My next to last road started out paved, became gravel, and then became a hill climbing dirt and mud road.”
I think I’VE BEEN ON THAT ROAD! The wife and I were doing a trip out there and followed a road on the map (paper), just below I-40. Started out paved, wide & nice...went to well-maintained gravel...narrowed after awhile...finally went to dirt...rooster tails of red dust behind us...drove over a mountain...down the other side looking into a huge valley...eventually became gravel and then paved again. Pulled into Sedona and had to find a car wash. We spent a good two hours out there and only saw three vehicles the entire ride...a small white car, a flatbed tractor-trailer loaded with flat stone slabs...and a covered wagon with a sign that said “Photos $10”.
That was a fun trip!
Um ... there’s some really straight roads once you are west of the Mississippi.
But ... weight DOES affect breaking and turning adversely.
Mine took a more southerly route down from I-40, coming out at the little hillside town of Jerome, which is a little west of Cottonwood, southwest of Sedona.
I only saw one “living thing” near the road, and it was long after I started and where there was nothing in the form of any human settlement I could see in any direction, but here was this large domestic mutt of a dog - looked healthy even if a little shabby and had no interest in me or coming to me when I stopped and got out and tried to call him to me. He gradually just trotted off away from the dirt road. I saw no person before that or any time after that until I got into Jerome.
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